Monnoyer Metaphysics and Truthmakers

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032691-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 332 Seiten

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The essays collected in this volume concern the general question of truthmaking. Most of them also bear upon the metaphysical nature of truthmakers (moments, tropes, property-instances, Aristotelian substances, states of affairs, meanings or essences ? ). Taking as their starting point a famous seminal paper by K. Mulligan, P. Simons and B. Smith, as well as D. Armstrong’s outstanding contribution to the subject, they offer a fresh assay of the main concepts involved, in order to assess the explanatory value of truthmakers and truthmaker necessitarianism, and explore such delicate issues as contingent truth, bare possibility, tensed propositions, the ontological irreducibility of relations, the subsistence of facts and the epistemic role of negative truths. The collection as a whole provides a comprehensive and thought-provoking survey of the current debate about truthmaking theory and deserves to be read carefully by anyone interested in the relationship between language, thought and reality.

With contributions from David ARMSTRONG, Stefano CAPUTO, François CLEMENTZ, Pascal ENGEL, Herbert HOCHBERG, Philipp KELLER, Jonathan LOWE, Jean-Maurice MONNOYER, Kevin MULLIGAN, Stephen MUMFORD, Frederic NEF, Peter SIMONS, Barry SMITH, Jonathan SIMON

Autoren/Hrsg.

Monnoyer, Jean-Maurice

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;5
2;Vingt ans après;7
3;Truth-Makers*KEVIN MULLIGAN;9
4;Two Dogmas of TruthmakingKEVIN MULLIGAN;50
5;Truth in virtue of meaningPETER SIMONS;67
6;Truthmaker ExplanationsBARRY SMITH;79
7;Truthmakers for negative truths,and for truths of mere possibilityD.M. ARMSTRONG;98
8;A World of TruthmakersPHILIPP KELLER;104
9;Reply to KellerD.M. ARMSTRONG;157
10;Relational TruthmakersFRANÇOIS CLEMENTZ;163
11;‘Is True’ and ‘Makes-True’:Two Predicates Without PropertiesHERBERT HOCHBERG;199
12;Senex erit puerTruthmakers for tensed sentencesFRÉDÉRIC NEF;221
13;Truthmaking as Essential DependenceE. J. LOWE;236
14;Identity MakersPASCAL ENGEL;260
15;Truth-making :What it is not and What it Could beSTEFANO CAPUTO;275
16;A New Solution to the Problem of NegativeTruthSTEPHEN MUMFORD;313
17;The Price of Positivity : Mumford andNegativesPETER SIMONS;331